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Dear JewishGen,I'm a new member, researching my husband's
family, who were from Kishineff and settled in America in the early twentieth
century. On the JewishGen site I came across another member query listing
Kishineff and a surname my husband had learned only recently had been the
original family name. The member who was posting had the same last name
as my husband's mother's maiden name. I thought there might be a
connection, and it turned, when the two of us emailed, that there is family
connection.

The member's grandfather was cousin to my
husband's mother. A lovely phone conversation took place between my
husband and the grandfather's widow, who at 92 remembers my husband's mother
clearly... One interesting piece of information from this wonderful woman:
her recollection is that the family changed their Eastern European name
to a Germanic name when one immigrant daughter married very early on--the whole
family changed over to her married name. I am very grateful to
JewishGen for facilitating our connection and our increasing knowledge.